CHRIS REPPUCCI

We walk the perimeter of the camp, and wander out between wide slats in the fencing where the mauve clouds hung softly in hue defy their weight over the slouching horizon at dusk, the brimstone smell lacing the lavender pigment of the picture. Focused on words that stamp the pages in tattoo paragraph, assembled neatly into columns that disperse as the paper pulp itself disappears, leaving only the phrase pieces which float away like fruit flies dying in mid air. As if passe

Our travels led us to an inland sea, in search of lagoons we thought we remembered the way to, the map a slowly spinning spread of poetry and portrait sketches rustling in our laps, for the first half of the ride we were navigators and somehow we got nestled into the open carriage who’s golden chariot wheels roll with a warming fire which soothes our anxiety; the distant gun fire over the horizon ahead worries us. It sounds threatening, but is it merely hot play or actual ha

When something with girth and gravity is lobbed into water it makes not only a splash but a heart slapping pulse of depth audible. This is the case when giant spheres in space wander from one long known territory of the earth’s sky into another; to us tiny torchlights meandering in an open field of darkness amongst glimmering diamonds set by some distant and extant jeweler, a piercer through the membrane revealing what milk pours through the camera obscura into the sphere of

They say the more things change the more they stay the same, words we must wait and see if they hold water, as Uranus is preparing to transition into Taurus after seven years time in Aries, where he will be trine by sign to Saturn and even slower moving Pluto. What does it mean to have these planets in earth signs? Saturn the planet of time, of chronology, of the skeletal architecture of reality itself as well as the hard laws of nature; Uranus, the planet of sudden, unpred

Sunday May 6th The series of 0s and 1s that represent us, the program of our every chromosome, of our every protein; the poise of our intentions, the impetus to all our actions, like snakes darting out of the dark, ones snapping out of the centers of zeros into the sequence which connects and completes us, a catalyst in the chain instigates us to step from our caves, and as now Mercury is free of the retrograde shadow we progress forward into new logic, n

We, at the center of the wheel, our hides pinned onto the place which we stand, witness the spectacle of the spinning vortex of circumpolar stars and the arc of volleying light across the ecliptic, studded by a blazing eye of gold, chased and repeatedly lapped by the morphing pearl of silver. The sphere we inhabit also spins, and so when the planets that we track reach ends of their orbits that make little progress from our perspective they seem to stop, turn around and head

The season for sowing and planting has come. Our plows plunge into the earth and part it with the Sun’s gleam slender on the curved surface of the blade. We swerve to avoid rocks, like geological submarines in slow stasis, lifting and falling with the breath of frost heave, the summer-winter inhale-exhale; or maybe these dark and oblong giants are like petrified whales surrounded by soil, cool and wet as Venus is said to be, the cool wet of concrete, the cool wet of the gro

The invisible and etherial lunar thread, elusively slips through the eye of the night and like a seed that grows a fountain, nestles its potential into the sky. We, below and within the bosom of earth are for a moment, a long dark night, adrift in the vacuum with only stars as our map, their stories reminders of where we’ve always been and where we are always headed. In caesura rather than a stop we curve with the cadence of the verse, and in this stanza Luna comes to court

Sunday April 8th The Sun reaches its highest degree of exaltation at 19 Aries and here shines most radiant other than in Leo. This is the Sun of burgeoning spring, a Sun vitalizing the land and penetrating it with light and warmth. Venus is in Taurus emphasizing fecundity and fertility and Mars and Saturn are still co present in Capricorn with aims of stabilization and monumental construction. Mars is in its exaltation in Capricorn, and is there co pre

When stress is applied over time, when when you engage in a strict schedule of action, when energy flows into a structure, there are physical results. Whether or not these are tectonic shifts producing massive shockwaves, silent and subtle hand motions that signal reorganizations of the system, the massacring of incarcerated populations or legal restrictions preventing expressions of violence is largely still unknown. Mars has come to visit Saturn in Capricorn. The planet